Software


Storage 2008: Promises Delivered And Postponed

Promises comes and go. A few have morphed into something different.

Open Source Survey Highlights IT Usage, Perceptions, Pitfalls

A surprising number of open source adopters don't have official OSS policies, exposing them to IP infringement or other violations

Will IT Spending Weather the Storm?

No matter how strange it sounds, many businesses could actually ramp up their IT spending during the current downturn

VMware Launches Key Piece of VDI Puzzle

VMware Releases Centerpiece of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Strategy

Trusted Storage for Enterprise-class Hard Disk Drives, Part 1 of 2

Encryption directly on the storage device provides the simplest and most effective means to obtain a trusted storage system.

Dashboards: The Key to IT Management Transparency

Dashboards can shape (or reshape) perceptions of IT and enhance its organizational relationship with business users. Dashboards deliver transparency -- a world of growing, if not lasting, influence in the technology-requirements lexicon.

Symantec Cloud Services Help IT Proactively Manage its Data Center

Finds hidden risks, configuration errors to head off or correct problems



IBM Offers Cloud Computing Help

Big Blue announces consulting services that will help organizations assess their cloud-computing options

Researchers Find Vista Kernel Memory Security Bug

Windows Vista may have a potential buffer-overflow security problem

New SQL Server Features Demoed at PASS

New version adds ability to centrally manage applications and resources

ArcSight Logger 3 Released

Among the new features are improved analytics and 35 terabytes of storage.

ScriptLogic Releases Security Explorer 7.0

Latest release now supports Microsoft Exchange

MX Logic Updates Message Archiving

Hosted e-mail archiving solution features a new user interface and better search

SAP Unveils Data Migration Service

SAP and Business Objects tout an all-in-one migration service that's purpose-built for SAP environments.

Q&A: BI and Your Shopping Cart

As the complexity of e-commerce grows and security demands escalate, more companies are turning to ready-made “shopping cart” applications instead of building their own. Such products can use business intelligence and security, among other things, to process e-commerce transactions online.

Analysis: Flexible Text Mining for Science and Industry

Keeping up on trends, warnings, threats, and insights within unstructured text is a daunting task. Scientific researchers have the toughest job of all, and some have turned to flexible text analytics.

With Project Unity, SAS and DataFlux Walk a Fine Line

Project Unity is an ambitious -- and especially fraught -- enterprise for SAS and its DataFlux subsidiary.

Microsoft Unveils Exchange and SharePoint as Services

Two hosted solutions available by annual subscription

Five Steps to Performance Intelligence

Performance intelligence represents a new practice for database and application performance management